Is there still mud on the earth's deepest seafloor? What do they look like when they are squeezed by the pressure of the seafloor?

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The largest area on earth we live in is the ocean. The ocean is mysterious to human beings, because human beings have not yet been able to probe the secrets of the ocean. This is because the seawater has a lot of pressure. The deeper it goes into the seabed, the greater the pressure. Therefore, the equipment that humans use to detect the deep sea cannot withstand such a strong pressure, and it is often crushed by the seawater.

Today, the editor wants to discuss a question with you, that is, is there mud in the deepest seabed? These muds have been subjected to such a strong pressure of seawater, what will they be pressed into? First of all, we need to know that there is silt on the seabed, and the structure of these silts is very loose, so the silt is also filled with water.

So where did all this silt come from? What is it made of? The silt on the seabed is formed by the co-precipitation of dust particles and organic residues in the water body. Most of these organic residues come from the corpses of marine organisms. Of course, there are also many rivers on the mainland that merge into the sea, and the organic residues and sediments brought by the rivers will sink to the seabed together and accumulate into silt.

Sedimentation and accumulation of silt, its structure is very loose, even some flocculent. Then the inside of these silts will easily be filled with sea water. So these silts will maintain the same degree of pressure as the deep sea, so they will not change much, and these silts are often also food for scavengers on the seafloor.

Then, after the continuous accumulation of sediment and biological particles, the pores of the silt itself will become smaller and smaller, so that the silt at the bottom will become more and more solid. After a series of physical and chemical reactions, it will become rock. . Because the rocks themselves are formed under high pressure, seawater won't do anything to them. After hundreds of millions of years, these rocks are likely to become mineral resources. What do you guys think the silt on the seabed looks like?

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